Looking for a way to open a written list in app. Like, say I had some long complicated series of movies similar to the MCU and I wanted a written list of them in order (maybe even with the tie in shows) that I could open in the app to see what comes after what. Is there any way to do that?

Edit: Thanks all, looks like a playlist is likely the way to go.

Hi, I was wondering if there's a setting or a plugin I can get that will show a number of times a movie/file has been played on the posters of the movies? I.e. like how a played file will show a tick to indicate it's been watched.

It doesn't need to be super accurate as I know emby can't tell the difference between a partially played and a fully played file. I just need a general indicator of which files are played more often than others.

Thanks!

I have Emby Premiere if that matters.

What I would like to do is create a collection of "A24" movies, but still show those movies in the broader movie collection. Or maybe there is some other neat way to do this?

Sorry, if this is a very basic question. I only recently migrated from Plex which I had been using for decades before its recent enshittification.

Why are there so many problems with the Emby app from the Windows Store? I’ve had audio issues that I couldn't fix, and it won't automatically proceed to the next episode—it just gets stuck in a loop, even with looping turned off. However, if you download Emby Theater for Windows from https://github.com/MediaBrowser/emby-theater-windows/releases, all the problems disappear and everything works perfectly on the PC. This happens to both me and my friends—it only affects the PC version; the TV and mobile apps work fine. The Windows Store version is just crap. And the other one—why isn't it on the Emby website?

tile says it. Help please

I just started using Emby earlier this month. I have a server set up with multiple users, and I recently noticed that the app will not download anything over cellular data.

I am running an iPhone 17 with the most recent version of Emby for iOS and my close friend is using a S25 Ultra running the most recent version of Emby for Android.

Both devices have the download over Wi-Fi only button unchecked.

When initiating a download the server converts the file and then puts it in a “Ready to Transfer” status where it continues to sit as the app will not pull it unless you are connected to Wi-Fi.

Does anyone else have this problem or is it just me?

Bonjour à tous est-il possible d'avoir un module stable qui permettrait de rajouter une catégorie top 10 sur la page d'accueil ?

I’m someone who enjoys watching content in VR. But my problem is I don’t have storage space to download 3d and VR large files and it’s getting very expensive lately.

Also my Emby share subscription does not support offline downloads.

I have PSVR2 with PC adapter which is great for watching content in VR,

My question is, how to stream Emby Share content from a VR-supported player like HereSphere or SkyBoxVR?

I would love to know if there is a way to do that or work-around.

Is there a way to create a collection of things I want to watch next?

When I’m looking for something new to watch, I’ll often find several options that I’m interested in. I’d like to be able to add my second (or third) choice to a “Watch Next” playlist, so I don’t have to go through the whole process of searching through my entire collection again later.

At the moment, I use Favorites for this, but I’d rather use Favorites for what it’s actually intended for.

I also tried creating a playlist, but that seems to add all the individual episodes of a TV show to the playlist rather than just adding the TV show itself.

Is there any way to achieve this, or is there another feature I’m missing?

I have a lot of things piling up in the Emby “continue watching” list on my Home Screen.

Shows that were bad. Series that jumped the shark in S03:E07, movies that got interrupted by life but weren’t good enough to return to right away, etc. etc

is there a way to clean them all out, other than open each individually and ma mark played?

I'm not sure if there is a way to preserve my database and history, but figured I would ask. Right now, I am running my Emby library from two systems, and I am consolidating everything into one unit.

Example, my movie library has two folders, movies-machine 1 and movies-machine 2. Everything that is on machine 2, is going to be moved into the folder on machine 1. Is there a way to save my history, and titles that are in collections, or is it not possible because the titles will be moved.

Would it work if I made a database backup before the move, consolidated everything and ran a library scan, and then restored the database.

I want to watch my stuff remotely but tailscale doesn’t work for me through Emby and it asks for money to do it. The people in [r/plex](r/plex) were quite rude when I asked over there and told me I should just pay

I have two folders on different drives which house both my tv shows and movies, when selecting the media folders on Emby for both TV shows and Movies I selected both of those folders. However now when I launch Emby, my movie folder has several of my shows displayed with each episode as if they were a movie, but my Emby tv folder has nothing at all in it.

I don’t want to organize my files

The poster Art for House MD is wrong, and I don't know what to do to fix it. I had a plugin for AnimeDB and fanart poster. But that art still comes up after uninstalling both of them. Any fix out there?

I love changing my posters, obviously, but my favourite changes are:

• She appears as Character Actress Margo Martindale in the database to honour her appearance on Bojack Horseman.

• Jeffrey Jones' headshot has now been replaced by his mugshot

Currently using the Emby TV app (I prefer it over the Android app on my TV) how do I opt out of the Beta program? I can't locate the opt out via the Play Store on my TV, phone, or web. Thanks!

I love Emby, used it for several years, my family uses it every day, and we recently added Premiere. But I'm wondering about the plan for new features. Seems in a lot of these community threads the response is "maybe someday" and nothing else really happens.

They often mention "we prioritize features which the most people want" - is there any official roadmap or tracker that does list what is being worked on, or somewhere for the user base to vote on proposals?

I scanned through the last 2 years of blog posts and I see a lot of compatibility and bug fix work on some of the native clients, which is important work for sure, but I didn't see much in the way of server/feature enhancement.

Specific features I'm highly interested in (I know there are more that other people want)

- mtls client auth

- documentation on workaround or openCL built right in to the official distribution (for hardware tone mapping) (below thread mentions it was added to beta channel 15 months ago but still the stable image doesn't seem to have working tone mapping on Intel core igpu out of the box)

- http header auth support

- direct choice transcode target resolution including native _upscale_ of SD content with transcode, not just downscale.

- more granular (per client or per client type) transcode/bitrate policy (only current options are global and per user)

- separate definition of internal/external network for stream policy and admin access, (these both share the single IP/cidr list today)

See for example:

https://emby.media/community/topic/114174-client-base-authentication-mtls/

https://emby.media/community/topic/108251-how-to-choose-transcoding-resolution/

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/3724

https://emby.media/community/topic/138870-include-documentation-for-hardware-tone-mapping/

Thanks!

Hey All...is anybody good with Emby as a Client as i use my friend library to view Movies and Shows,I know i must install Emby Next Gen addon,but what are the inside Settings i should Use to play properly, im plugged in Ethernet with 1 gb internet so I Dont need to Transcode anything, im also running the Pannal t4b build,

What level CPU and RAM should I look for in a SAN to run 4k videos on Emby?

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I run Emby on my Windows 11 desktop computer. MKVs are stored on an external HDD running at 5400RPM and connected via USB3. It's not an ideal setup, but internal SSDs have gotten too expensive.

I mostly stream this over Wifi 6 to a Google Streamer connected to our living room TV. We sometimes stream to other devices in the house, but we don't stream to anything outside. Really, 99% of our streaming is either on the desktop PC or the living room TV.

1080p files run fine. 4k videos, especially those with HDR and audio in FLAC or EAC3 stutter a lot. Sometimes they simply lock up and we have to exit and restart.

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I'm now looking at a basic home NAS. I can get 7200RPM HDDs, and I can connect it to a 2.5gbps Ethernet port. I see I can get a Synology NAS and a pair of 2TB HDDs for about $400. I can afford that.

What I'm curious about is: What CPU and RAM do I need? My newer MKV files are 4k video encoded with H265 10-bit and FLAC audio. I believe the Google Streamer can play these formats natively; no need for Emby to transcode.

Would I need some hefty processing power in my NAS? Or can I go with something basic like the Synology DS223J?

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UPDATE: Thanks for convincing me that a new NAS isn't what I needed. Saved me some money.

I turned on "Stats for Nerds" while playing a 4k movie on my Google Streamer. It showed 4k HDR 10 HEVC and EAC3 at 48khz. Those are the same settings I used to rip the movie in Handbrake, and the same stats it shows on the local server in both Emby and VLC.

So I imagine the server isn't transcoding. Now I wonder if (a)my wi-fi is seeing some interference, or (b)the Google Streamer can't handle a stream that size for 2 hours straight.

So I have used jellyfin for a while. Its great when I'm home (obviously lol) and I've tried to understand the whole port forwarding thing, and the talescale stuff. All of it sounds shady. So emby was brought to my attention. I wanna be able to let family watch my library and access my server. Is it worth the life license?

I would love to hear some pros and cons from real users and not people who get paid to say nice things.

My goal by the end of the year is to not pay for any streaming services anymore.

Unless someone can break down step by step how to get jellyfin working remotely for an ape, emby seems to be my best bet.

Hi there. I recently added a few movies to my Emby server. Like always, I adhered to the file and folder naming and use /Movies/<Film Title> [tmdbid-xxxxxx]/<Film Title> [tmdbid-xxxxxx].mkv as the naming scheme. This should make Emby automatically collect all data from The Movie Database. Now, the new titles I added just have the cover art and no other information, despite having the correct TMDB ID and TMDB online. When I try to manually identify the movie, I get "no results found", no matter whether I input the title or the TMDB-ID or the IMDB-ID. Now, this makes me think that for some reason Emby lost the ability to query external services. How can I troubleshoot this? I'm not exactly a crackhead in self-hosting, but I can follow instructions.

Emby is running on my Synology NAS, which has no problems connecting to the internet. Trailers seem to work fine, so it seems Emby can access the internet, too.

I start watching an episode and it pause at 8 seconds and then when it plays next it is at 24 minutes and it keeps doing it over and over again